Posts had existed in China from an old date.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

If any compliment was paid him, either in conversation or a set speech, he would not scruple to interrupt and reprimand the party, and alter what he had said.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Going from Florence to Pisa, he wrought in the Campo Santo, on the [Pg 118] wall that is beside the principal door, all the lives of the Holy Fathers, with expressions so lively and attitudes so beautiful that he equalled Giotto and gained thereby very great praise, having expressed in certain heads, both with drawing and with colour, all that vivacity that the manner of those times was able to show.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Her hair was raven black, and disposed in long glossy ringlets, a style of coiffure rather unusual in those days, but always graceful and becoming; her complexion was clear and pale; her eyes I could not see, for, being bent upon her prayer-book, they were concealed by their drooping lids and long black lashes, but the brows above were expressive and well defined; the forehead was lofty and intellectual, the nose, a perfect aquiline and the features, in general, unexceptionable—only there was a slight hollowness about the cheeks and eyes, and the lips, though finely formed, were a little too thin, a little too firmly compressed, and had something about them that betokened, I thought, no very soft or amiable temper; and I said in my heart—‘I would rather admire you from this distance, fair lady, than be the partner of your home.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

But if a dog gets really savage in his play, his expression immediately changes.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

M. de Sanvitali had left Venice, and the Parmesan government had placed his estates in chancery in consequence of his extravagant expenditure.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

‘Not a wery nice neighbourhood, this, Sir,’ said Sam, with a touch of the hat, which always preceded his entering into conversation with his master.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

“Not a wery nice neighbourhood this, sir,” said Sam, with a touch of the hat, which always preceded his entering into conversation with his master.
— from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 1 (of 2) by Charles Dickens

In furthering this great project he entered into correspondence with the leading pomologists of Europe, and from them secured trees and cions, which, with native sorts, brought his collection up to 2000 varieties of fruits at the time of his death in 1842.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

Peg had eyed it curiously off and on for hours.
— from Peg O' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners

And in another place he exclaims: If cells did not maintain their ancestral character in a very remarkable way, what would be the use of grafting a good kind of fruit on to a stock of poorer quality?
— from The Church, the Schools and Evolution by J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant

It is a discipline wherein a new, Christian life is entered upon through faith in Christ the true Passover; hence, Easter is celebrated with sweet, unleavened bread.
— from Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Martin Luther

But the consistent absence of superfluous epithets and other redundancies is evidence that she had consciously formed an ideal of { 67} composition, and that she thought out the means of producing her effects is clear from several passages in her letters.
— from Jane Austen and Her Country-house Comedy by W. H. (William Henry) Helm

In order to obtain some material advantages from his abdication and to save Godoy, who was still in prison, he entered into communication with Murat, and as a result secretly retracted his abdication, placing himself entirely in the hands of Napoleon.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

prevented his entrance into Constantinople, the beleagured Pope turned from the cruel yet impotent tyranny of Leo, and the pretension of the encroaching Lombard.
— from Peter's Rock in Mohammed's Flood, from St. Gregory the Great to St. Leo III by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

After Banks had made this purchase, he entered into contract with General Greene to supply the Army with clothes.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress